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FIRE ESCAPE.

No. 406.831. A Patented July 9, 1889.

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oLIvER P. EURMAN, or I-roRNELLsvLLE, NEw YORK, AssieNoE oF ONE- HALE To LUTHER fr. MAsoN, `oF SAME PLACE.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 406,831, dated July 9, 18897. Application filed March 16, 1889. Serial No. 303 ,513.` (No model.)

ing drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. Y

Flgure l of the drawings is a representation of my fire-escape. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig.'

3v is a view of the car and its attachments.

This invention relates to that class of fireescapes wherein is employed a basket or receptacle manipulated from window to window of a building by means of a central suspending-rope and side ropes actuated from the ground; and it consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will fully appear from the following description and accompanying illustration.

In the accompanying` drawings, the letter A designates the face of a building; and B, a stronglybraced arch or projecting framework at the middle of the top thereof, located usually above the cornice.

C is a basket carriage or car having the diagonal crossing bailsD rigidly corners.

E is the inain central suspending-pulley,

which is secured to the top of the arch B, and

F. E are the lateral eaves-pulleys, which are with the first flooring above the ground-oor,

and vertically under the main central suspending-pulley E.

F F are the lateral steady-pulleys, arranged vertically under the lateral eaves-pulleys and at the same height from the ground as the central steady-pulley, as shown in the.

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attached to its- J is the central wire rope, which engages the central steady-pulley F and passes up over the central suspending-pulley E down to the car, to which it is attached at the intersection of the crossing bails, a bearing and suspension post G extending from said intersection to the iioor of the car at its center, as shown.

I I are the lateral wire ropes, which engage the lateral steady-pulleys and pass upward over the lateral eaves-pulleys and downward and inward to the car, being attached thereto at the same point where the central rope is attached. The free ends 7a of these ropes are, when not in use, coiled and hung upon pins in the wall near the lower window and door When, however, the fire-escape is to be used, their free ends are operated by persons'upon the sidewalk. The branched steady-rope L is also held by a person on the sidewalk, and, as its branches. ZZ are attached to opposite ends of the car, it enables the operator below to hold the car in level or nearly level position. The car is readily moved to any window of the building by manipulating the suspending-ropes. To move it to a middle window on the right, the middle and lefthand ropes are slackened, while the right hand is drawn upon until the car is brought to the required position.

`Vhen not in use, the basket or car remains at the top of the building under the suspension-arch out of the way, and if desired this arch can be covered in at the front and back to protect the car from the weather, an opening being left under the arch for the passage o t the car downward when required.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is#

l. In a fire-escape, the combination, with the central suspending-pulley and the lateral eaves-pulleys, of the central steady-pulley and the lateral steady-pulleys, respectively located below the central and lateral suspending-pulleys, the three wire ropes engaging said pulleys, as shown, the suspended car connected to said wire ropes, and the branched steady-rope connected to` said car, substantially as speciiied.

2. The hre-escape consisting of the central arch or brace and its suspending-pulley, the

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lateral suspendingpulleys and the central from said steady-pulleys, substantially as 1o and lateral steady-pulleys vertically below shown, and for the purposes set forth. said suspending-pulleys, the croSs-bailed car, In testimony whereof I affix my signature in its branhteld steadty-rlope znl (ental bearingpresence of two witnesses. Y 5 post, an .1e cen -ra an L era Wire ropes attached to said car at the intersection of its OLIVER P' FURMAN balls, passing over the suspending-pulleys lVitnesses: downward, engaging the steady-pulleys, and AVERY MODOUGALL, having the free operating ends k attending i IRVING PAINE. 

